The Missouri High School and Junior High School Rodeo Associations will hold a rodeo in Milan this weekend. The rodeo will be at the Sullivan County Expo Center and Fair Grounds Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock and Sunday morning at 10 o’clock with the Milan Old Timers hosting the event. Terri Lynn Richardson with the Milan […]
The North Central Missouri College Traveling Pirates will be traveling to Italy and Greece in May 2018. Highlights on this 13-day trip will include the following: Rome/ Vatican City, Sorrento, Pompeii, Florence by train, Brindisi, night ferry to Patras, Delphi, Athens, Acropolis and will include a three-day cruise of the Greek islands: Samos, Patmos, Crete, […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of a Cameron woman in Dekalb County early Tuesday morning. The Patrol accused 58-year-old Therese Lewis of the misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated as well as no insurance and possession of marijuana, prior offender. She was taken to the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail on a 12-hour hold.
The Livingston County Health Center in Chillicothe will hold a Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention class for seniors next month. Mary Taylor and Ann Burchett will lead the free demonstration class the morning of September 8th in the Health Center classroom. The class is for individuals age 60 and older or those living […]
The Spickard R-2 Board of Education approved the tax rate at its meeting Monday evening. The tax rate is set at $4.1731 on the $4,610,372 of assessed valuation. The board also adopted all of the Missouri School Boards’ Association policies. It was announced that a new bus has been purchased and is ready for the […]
Two veteran benefit events will be held in Trenton next month. A Vet Center Counselor will provide free confidential help to veterans and family of active duty military at Trenton VFW Post 919 September 8th from 9 o’clock in the morning to 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Topics discussed will include stress management, post traumatic […]
Trenton Municipal Utilities has issued a boil advisory due to the repair of a water main break. The advisory affects Ninth Street from Kumler to the Ninth Street Bridge as well as Avalon from Ninth Street to 10th Street. The boil advisory will expire Wednesday evening at 6:30. The Sullivan County Public Water Supply District […]
Laredo R-7 School District began classes Tuesday with fewer students enrolled than first-day enrollment last year. Laredo’s first-day enrollment for kindergarten through seventh grade was 41 students which is down seven from a year ago. The largest grade is sixth with eight students and Kindergarten is the smallest grade with two students enrolled.
The chip seal project planned on Route U in Putnam County for today has been pushed back one day. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to apply the preventative maintenance treatment from U. S. Route 136 to the Iowa state line Wednesday and Thursday. Route U will be reduced to one […]
Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway released audit results for the Brookfield License Office for Linn County. It was one of ten license offices for which she released audits. The Brookfield office received an overall rating of excellent, which is the highest rating available and mentioned no concerns in the office’s audit. Total fee collections were […]
The Chillicothe Area Chamber of Commerce has announced that “Christmas Around the World” has been chosen as the 2017 Holiday Parade theme. The Holiday Parade this year will be sponsored by Hy-Vee, Hedrick Medical Center and Midwest Gloves & Gear. The parade will begin at 10:00 am on Saturday, November 18, 2017, in downtown Chillicothe […]
One driver was injured in a two vehicle accident Monday afternoon on southbound Interstate 35 in Cameron. The highway patrol reports 26-year-old Joseph Kreger of Weskan, Kansas received minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to the Liberty Hospital. The other driver, 78-year-old Karen Bielinski of Belen, New Mexico was not hurt. Circumstances indicate Kreger […]
Three miles south of Breckenridge, in Caldwell County, had a single vehicle accident Monday afternoon. A pickup driven by 29-year-old Dennis Pickering of Braymer was westbound on High Point Drive when, according to the highway patrol, he failed to negotiate a curve, went off the south side, struck a ditch, and stopped in a creek […]
A single vehicle accident Monday night in Linn County resulted in minor injuries for 41-year-old Candice Sisson of Meadville. She was taken by ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital of Brookfield. The patrol reports her westbound car had traveled off the right side of U.S. 36 to avoid being struck by another vehicle. The location was […]
Two drivers were injured in a three vehicle accident about midday Monday near Carrollton. The highway patrol listed injuries as moderate for 29-year-old Britt Christephen of Callao and 40-year-old James Brown of Carrollton. No injury was noted for the third driver, 59-year-old Noyes Baake of Overland Park, Kansas. The highway patrol said Christephen and Brown […]
A standoff situation with law enforcement ended peacefully Monday night following negotiations in Chillicothe. It was 6:26 pm when officers were sent to a disturbance in the 200 block of Park Lane. Upon arrival, officers were advised that a male – identified as David A. Bruce – had barricaded himself in an apartment and refused […]
The Trenton Police Department has received several calls regarding vehicles being entered and tampered with. According to information posted to the police departments’ Facebook page, the incidents have occurred on the west side of Trenton, in the area of West Crowder Road and West 15th Street. Police officers request citizens to make sure to remove […]
July unemployment rate for Grundy county is even with the statewide jobless figure of three point eight percent. The latest rate in Grundy County is based on 175 persons unemployed out of a civilian labor force of 4,580. The Grundy county rate is up slightly from three-point seven percent in June. July rates in other […]
North Central Missouri College held its annual fall orientation on Thursday, August 17 and welcomed five new faculty and staff members. They are from left: Hannah Chapman, Online Services Administrator; Jack Green, Agriculture Instructor; Dr. Sterling Recker, Political Science/Sociology Instructor; Ashtyn Wilson, Maryville Nursing Instructor; and Dr. Tristan Londre, Vice President of Academic Affairs.
The Hundley-Whaley Research Center at Albany will host its annual twilight tour from 5 until 8 o’clock Tuesday, Aug. 22 and the event is free and open to the public. The tour includes a wagon ride through a handful of alternative agriculture presentations. Those discussions will feature beekeeping, mushroom growing, maple syrup harvesting, and monarchs. All stops on the specific tour will […]
